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NED AND NAN 

IN HOLLAND 


EMMA G. OLMSTEAD 

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FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL AT 
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., AT SCRANTON, PA., 

AND AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 

AND 

EMMA B. GRANT 

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PRINCIPAL OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL, 
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 


ILLUSTRATED BY 

VAL TRACEWELL AND DOROTHY JACKSON 



CHICAGO NEW YORK 

ROW, PETERSON AND COMPANY 





Copyright, 1916 
ROW, PETERSON 
AND COMPANY 


AUG 12)916 


©CI.A43576(! 


FOREWORD 


There is a growing feeling among those interested in civic 
education that more might be done through the schools to help 
our people to understand those who come from foreign lands, 
as well as to help them understand us and our ways. The night 
schools, the classes for teaching English to foreigners, and social 
center work of various kinds are all parts of this great ‘ ‘ melting- 
pot’ ? movement. Some cities are making a part of the Fourth 
of July celebration a “Welcome to Citizenship” ceremony. 

How can the public schools assist in this work? We must 
remember that training for American citizenship should never 
mean the giving up of anything that is good in the ideals of the 
foreign land. Rather, let us help to preserve these ideals and use 
them whenever we can. If our people are to receive those from 
other lands in the right spirit, our children should have correct 
information concerning ‘ ‘ those that knock at our gates, ’ ’ whether 
they be Dutch, Irish, German, English, French, Italian, Russian, 
or of any other nationality. We must learn of the food, shelter, 
and clothing of these peoples ; how they keep their holidays ; how 
they make their living; of their music, their art, their folk 
dances. Then, only, will our people realize that “sympathetic 
understanding,” essential to a right attitude in ourselves if we 
are to welcome those who come to join us. 

The purpose of this book, then, is to furnish attractive, 
authentic material for supplementary reading, of a kind, that 
not only increases the reading vocabulary, supplies desirable 
information, and developes imagination, but gives to our children 
this sympathetic understanding for peoples different from our 

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own. The authors have aimed to make this material child-like 
in expression, to use good, simple English, and to avoid stressing 
the spectacular or giving a distorted view. 

Among the first special days in the school year, comes Thanks- 
giving Day. Holland is sure to find a place in this celebration 
in connection with the Pilgrims. A real desire to know more 
of the Dutch people can be satisfied by giving the child his own 
book to read, rather than requiring him to be a passive listener 
to facts about Holland. 


SUGGESTIONS 

A sand table. An attractive Dutch village can be built and 
the children will find much pleasure and profit in constructing 
windmills, houses, dikes, canals, boats, carts, and other things 
named in the story. The Dennison Paper Co. sells borders of 
Dutch people and of animals of various kinds. These can be 
stuffed with cotton, and, when supported by standards, they are 
a delight to the children. The teacher who has not made some 
bottle dolls for a Dutch sand table has pleasure ahead. Full 
directions for making these dolls are found in Forbush *s Manual 
of Play, published by the Macmillan Co. For several years 
Primary Education Magazine has had very interesting articles 
on the use of the sand table in connection with the work on 
Holland. 

Paper-cutting and paper-tearing. The children can easily be 
taught to tear the trees for the sand table or for a poster picture. 
The rough edges make them more effective than the cut-out trees. 
Often the people, houses, boats, shoes, etc., are cut out of colored 
or white paper and supported by toothpicks or other wooden 
standards. 

Clay modeling. Clay is a material which lends itself readily 
to the making of many of the objects mentioned in the book. 

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Children especially like to make the dogs for the dog-carts of 
clay, and to use shoestrings or strips of leather for the harness. 

Drawing paper and colored crayons. Good illustrative work 
can be made with drawing paper and crayons. A miniature 
Dutch village may be drawn on the 9 by 12 inch drawing paper, 
using two or three harmonizing colors from the crayon box. 
Various parts of the story may be illustrated and the children 
allowed much freedom, so that originality is developed. For 
example, The Trip on the Canal, At the Kermis, Going to Market, 
At the Beach, are good subjects. 

Dramatization. In a school where this material has long 
been used, the children had ‘ ‘ Christmas in Other Lands ’ ’ as the 
central idea for their Christmas program. They dramatized 
a Dutch Christmas based on facts about Christmas found in this 
book. 

Poster pictures. Effective Dutch posters may be made by 
using a background of 9 by 12 inch gray paper and pasting 
figures on in another color. Some teachers like the co-operative 
poster picture, where the best of each kind of paper-cutting is 
pasted on a large piece of heavy paper of chart size. Then the 
Dutch village or some part of the story becomes the work of the 
whole room. 

Language work. The work generally should be oral, but 
interesting letters may be written by having the children make 
believe they are Dutch children writing to American children or 
vice versa. Let the children write a paragraph to tell how the 
Dutch celebrate Christmas, or about one of the following : a dike, 
windmills, Dutch beds, the canals,, the market, etc. 

To the alert teacher other ways of using the book will occur 
as the children become interested in the characters of the story. 

— The Authors. 


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CONTENTS 


Going to Holland 

The Ship # . 

At the Dock *. 

The Steward 

Time to Sail 

The Ship Sails Away. . . . 

The Cabin 

On Deck 

Playing “I Spy” 

The Sea Gulls 

At the Dock in Holland. . 

The Dutch Children 

The Wooden Shoes 

The Canal Boat 

The Dutch Home 

The Trees 

The Bedroom 

The Bed in the Wall 

The Dutch Fireplace .... 

The Stable 

The Geese 

Woman Carrying Milk 

Butter and Cheese 

The Children Churning. . 

Scrubbing 

The Windmills 

Going Fishing 

The Storks 

Going to Market 

Fruit and Vegetables. . . . 

Butter and Cheese 

The Tulips 

A Flower Carnival 

The Tulip Story 

Dutch Dog Carts 


The New Baby 67 

The Kermis 70 

Ned’s Dream 75 

Writing a Letter 76 

Ned’s Letter 77 

Skating on the Ice 78 

The Ice Boat 80 

The Ice Chair 81 

Fishing through the Ice . . 83 

A Load of Peat 85 

The Feast of St. Nicholas. 87 

St. Nicholas 92 

Eve of St. Nicholas 93 

St. Nicholas Day 95 

A New Year Greeting. ... 98 

The Coming of Spring. ... 99 

A Game of Marbles 101 

Flying Kites 102 

Easter 103 

Egg Rolling 105 

Playing School 106 

Riddles 108 

Whitsuntide 109 

The Queen 110 

Palace in Amsterdam. . . . Ill 

Amsterdam 115 

Weeding the Streets 116 

The Cheese Market 117 

The Hague 120 

Princess Juliana 121 

At the Beach 122 

The Island of Marken. ... 124 
Ready to Leave Holland. . 127 
Sailing for America 128 


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Going to Holland 

We are twins. 

Our names are Ned and Nan. 

We live in Chicago. 

We are going to Holland. 

Our Dutch cousins live in Holland. 
They wish us to visit them. 

This little book is a story of our trip. 
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The Ship 

We rode on the train all day and all night. 
The next morning we were in New York. 
We shall sail from New York. 

We are going on a big ship. 

We shall have lots of fun. 

Father and Mother are going with us. 

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At the Dock 

Ned: Here we are at the dock. 

Some friends from Chicago are with us. 
Our friends in New York are here, too. 
They came to say good-bye to us. 
They brought Nan a big doll. 

Nan: Here is a set of dishes! 

Look at the doll’s bed! 

They brought Ned a toy dog. 

Is this story book for you, Ned? 
What fun we shall have with the toys! 


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The Steward 


Nan: See the man with a white cap 
and a short, blue coat! 

He is our steward. 

He has a name on his cap. 

It is “Steward.” 

Ned: The steward took our toys on the ship. 
He had to make two trips to take 
all of our toys. 

Then he came for the bags. 

There are many stewards on a big ship. 
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Time to Sail 

It is almost time for the ship to sail. 

The first whistle is blowing, “Toot, toot.” 
The stewards are calling, 

“All off! All off! All off!” 

We say good-bye to our friends, and they 
are leaving the ship. 

The stewards are calling again, 

“All off! All off! All off!” 

The whistle blows and we are off. 
“Good-bye! Good-bye! Good-bye all!” 

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The Ship Sails Away 

Soon we are far from the dock. 

How fast the ship goes! 

Our friends keep waving to us, and we 
wave back. 

They look smaller and smaller. 

We can see them no longer. 

We can see only the tall buildings. 
Soon we can’t see the buildings. 

We feel a little lonesome. 

We wish our friends, were with us. 


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The Cabin 

Nan and Ned are in the cabin. 

Father and Mother are in the cabin, too. 
The ship cabins are very small. 

It is hard to find room for the toys. 

What strange little beds, 
one above the other! 

The beds on a ship are called berths. 

It is great fun to climb the steps to get 
into the beds. 

Ned and Nan both slept in upper berths. 


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On Deck 

The deck was a fine place to play. 

Nan and Ned brought out their toys. 

There were many other little boys and girls 
on the deck. 

Nan asked them to play. 

They all wanted to play “house.” 

All wanted to be “Father” or “Mother.” 
Nan was the mother for a while. 

Ned was the father. 

All the rest were the children. 

They played “house” all the morning. 


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Playing “I Spy’’ 

The next day the children played “I spy.” 
Ned was “It.” 

There are many good places to hide 
on the deck of a ship. 

Nan hid behind a lifeboat. 

There are many lifeboats on a ship. 

One little boy hid behind a deck chair. 
Another was covered with a rug. 

Ned called — “One, two, three, look out 
for me.” 

“Sh-h-h! Here he comes!” 

Then all were still. 


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The Sea G-ulls 

Nan: Look! Look! See the big birds, Ned! 
They are sea gulls. 

There are many of them. 

See how they ride on the water! 
Shall we feed them? 

They all come for bread. 

Ned: O Nan! I see a big ship with our flag. 
Is it going to New York? 

It looks like a big house on the water. 
The sea gulls have been with us 
four days. 

They follow the strange ship back 
to America. 

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Ned: Here we are in Holland! 

We were twelve days coming 
to Holland. 

We are glad to get off the ship. 

Nan: How funny the little boys and 
girls look! 

Ned: Our Dutch cousins must be here. 
Nan: 0 Mother! there is Hilda! 

Here comes Hans, too! 

Hilda: We are so glad to see you, 

Ned and Nan. 

Hans: Come with us to our home, cousins. 
We shall have a ride on a canal boat. 


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The Dutch Children 


Hans looks like a little old man. 

He wears a vest and a little round cap. 
His trousers are long and wide. 

Hilda looks like a little old woman. 

She wears a long dress and a black apron. 
She looks so fat and funny. 

She wears a queer white cap. 

There are brass buttons on the cap. 

The sides of the cap look like horns. 

What queer shoes they wear! 


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The Wooden Shoes 


Nan: Click! Clack! Click! Clack! 

What is that noise? 

Hans: The little Dutch boys and girls 
\ have wooden shoes. 

Ned: Do the shoes hurt your feet, Hans? 
Hans: No, I wear thick stockings. 

Hilda wears thick stockings, too. 
Hilda knits the stockings. 

She is only seven years old. 

Ned: Could you do that, Nan? 

Hilda: All the little Dutch girls can knit. 
Ned: Father has our trunks now. 

Nan: We can go to your home, Hans. 

Is it far? Do we go all the way 



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The Canal Boat 


Ned: Does this boat take us all the way, 
Hans? 

Hans: Yes, we go on the canal. 

Ned: Then the canal is a water street. 
Hans: It will take us four hours to go. 

I can show you many canals in 
Holland. 

Ned: Look at the little house on that boat! 

Is it a real house? 

Hans: Yes. People live there. 

Ned: See the flowers! See the bird cage! 
I see children playing on the deck. 
They have a dog, too, and a cat. 


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The Dutch Home 


Ned : This is the home of our Dutch cousins. 
Nan: What a small house! 

Ned: It does not look like our home. 

Nan: It looks like a fairy’s home. 

The house is blue with a red roof. 
What queer trees! The trunks 
are blue. 

Hilda: Sometimes they paint them 
other colors. 

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The Trees 

Nan: The trees do not look like real trees. 
Ned : Some are cut to look like big balls, some 
like cubes, and some like cones. 
Nan: This one looks like an umbrella. 

Ned: See! That tree looks like an elephant. 
Nan: This one looks like a rooster. 

Oh Ned, it is a real fairyland! 

Shall we go inside the house? 

Hans and Hilda take off their shoes 
at the door. 

Ned: Must we take off ours? 

Hans: The Dutch children do not wear their 
wooden shoes in the house. 


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The Bedroom 


Nan : Hilda, won’t you show us to our room 
Hilda: Why, yes; come with me, cousins. 
Nan: This is a funny bed, Ned. 

It is so high. 

How can we get into it? 

Ned, please bring the steps and 
we will climb in. 

Ned: We did this on the steamer. 

Isn’t it great fun? 

Nan: Feather beds over us! 

Feather beds under us! 

Hilda: Pleasant dreams, Ned and Nan. 


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The Bed in the Wall 

Ned: Where is your bed, Hans'? 

Hans: You would never guess. 

Come into the kitchen. 

Now look all around. 

Nan: There is no place for a bed here. ' 
I don’t see one. 

Hilda: I will show you. 

I will pull back the curtains. 

Nan: O! what a funny place to sleep! 

It looks like a cupboard. 

May I sleep there sometime? 

Ned: I’d like to sleep there, too. 


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The Dutch Fireplace 

Hans: Isn’t it time for dinner, Hilda? 

Nan: Look at the blue dishes! 

Hilda: There are windmills and Dutch boys 
and girls on them. 

Ned: Where is the stove, Hans? 

Hans: We don’t have stoves, Ned. 

Mother cooks in the fireplace. 

Hilda: I clean the brass pots and kettles. 

Nan: How they shine! I can see my face 
in them. 

See the pots and kettles hanging all 
around the fireplace, 

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The Stable 


The children went to see the cow stable. 

It was as clean as the house. 

The floor was made of brick. 

It was scrubbed every day. 

The walls were white and clean. 

The windows had white curtains. 

There were flowers in the windows! 

They washed and combed the cows every day. 
The cows’ tails were tied to the ceiling. 
This helped to keep the cows clean. 

Hans’ father wore a white suit when he 
milked the cows. 

The Dutch people are very clean. 

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Hilda: Here come some more of our pets! 

They are coming to welcome you, Nan. 
Nan: I am afraid, Hilda. 

The geese have their mouths open. 
They make a strange noise. 

Ned: Hans says they won’t hurt you. 

They are just glad to see you. 

Hilda: The old gander is looking at Ned. 

He will not hurt him. 

Hans: There is water all around us. 

Of course, we have many geese 
in Holland. 

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Woman Carrying Milk 

Nan: Let’s see what that woman is doing. 

What has she on her shoulders'? 

Hans: That is a yoke, Nan. 

She is going to the pasture to 
milk the cows. 

In Holland, the women milk the cows. 

Hilda: See how she carries the milk! 

The yoke fits over her neck 
and shoulders. 

Long hooks hang on each side. 

She hooks a pail of milk to each one, 

Ned: It must be easy to carry milk or 
water in that way. 


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Butter and Cheese 

Hilda’s mother makes butter and cheese 
from the milk. 

The cows eat nice fresh grass, so the butter 
and cheese are good. 

The butter is sweet and yellow. 

The children drink the buttermilk. 

The cheese is made into a ball. 

It is called Edam cheese. 

Hilda’s father takes the butter and cheese 
to market. 

Some of the cheese comes to America. 


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The Children Churning 

Hilda can make butter 

The churn looks like a small barrel. 

It is too high for Hilda. 

She has to stand on a stool. 

The dasher is a long stick with two little 
boards across the bottom. 

Hilda washes the churn with hot water. 
Then she puts in the cream. 



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Then, all is ready for the churning. 

She works the dasher up and down. 

Soon she gets very tired, for it is hard work 
to churn. 

Now, Ned tries his hand. 

Splash, splash! Splash, splash! 

“Go faster, Ned,” says Hans. 

Hans takes the dasher to show Ned. 

Soon little bits of butter come on the dasher. 

Hilda opens the churn. 

See the yellow butter and the thick, 
white buttermilk! 

The butter is washed and put into 
a large bowl. 

Each child has a drink of buttermilk. 

“Isn’t this good?” shouts Ned. 

“I wish we could make butter at home,” 
says Nan. 

Hilda washes the churn and puts it away. 


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Scrubbing 

Scrub! Scrub! Scrub! Scrub! 

To-day is scrubbing day. 

Nan says every day is scrubbing day. 
Dutch people keep things very clean. 
Hilda takes down all the blue dishes. 
Her mother washes them. 

They are Grandmother’s dishes and 
Hilda might break them. 

“May I clean the brass pans, Hilda?” 
asked Nan. 

“Yes, Nan, but you must be able to see 
your face in them.” 


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Hans is scrubbing all the wooden shoes. 

He hangs them on a tree to dry. 

Hilda’s mother is scrubbing the steps 
and the door. 

Look! she scrubs the outside of the house! 

“Why, Hans! What are you doing now?” 
asked Ned. 

Hans is scrubbing the trees. 

Then he scrubs the bricks in the walk. 

“Is the scrubbing done, Hilda?” asked Nan. 

“No, we must scrub our dogs,” said Hilda. 

Poor dogs! They do not like it. 

The soap gets into their eyes. 

Hilda’s father is scrubbing the cows. 

The cows do not like it either. 

Ha! Ha! Now the children will scrub 
themselves. 

Boys and girls do not like to be scrubbed 
either. 


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The Windmills 

Nan: Come on, Hans, and show us 
the windmills. 

I ran close to one yesterday, 
when I was playing. 

The big fans blew my hair and 
it felt nice and cool. 

Ned: How many windmills are there 
on your farm, Hans? 

Hans: Father has nine windmills. 

Ned: Why do you have so many? 

Hans: We need them to do our work. 


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Hilda: The windmills do many kinds 
of work. 

Some grind wheat into flour. 

Some grind rice into flour. 

Some grind seeds for making oil. 

Others saw trees into boards. 

Hans: Water- windmills sometimes work 
all day and all night. 

The land is very low in Holland. 

If we did not have windmills, 

the water w T ould cover the land. 

It would spoil our gardens and farms. 

People could not live in Holland 
without windmills. 

Nan: May we go inside a windmill? 

Hilda: Oh yes, sometimes people live there. 

Hans: We have a friend who lives 
in a windmill. 

Her name is Nina. 


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Nan: Does it look like our house inside? 

I wish we could go to see Nina. 

Hilda: We will take you to her home. 

Hans: Father says we may go 
to visit Nina to-day. 

We will go by canal. 

Hilda: Do you see that water- windmill 
over there? 

That is where Nina lives. 

Hans: I see Nina now. 

Nina, come and meet our cousins! 

Hilda: Ned and Nan came from America. 

They have never been in a windmill. 

Hans: Show them what your windmill does, 
Nina. 

Nina: Do you see the pumps? They 
are going now. 

The wind blows the great arms 
of the windmill. 


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It turns them round and round. 

That makes the pumps go. 

They do their work when 
the wind blows. 

Ned: What are the pumps for? 

Nina: The pumps take the water from the 
little canals all around the farm. 

Ned: Where does the water go then? 

Nina: It goes into the big canals and back 
to the ocean. 

Hans: The people need the water 
in the canals. 

It keeps the land from getting 
too dry. 

But too much water is not good 
for the farms. 

Nan: Do you like to live in a windmill, 
Nina? 

Nina: Yes, but when there is a big storm, 


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Nan: 


Ned: 


Nina : 


I am afraid. 

Oh! We were afraid, too, 

when we were on the ship. 

One day we had a big storm. 

The waves went almost over the ship. 
We wished we were at home then. 
The wind howls and makes 
the big arms creak. 

It sounds so terrible in the night. 



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Sometimes, when the wind blows, 
we sit up all night. 

Let us go to the windmill 
that grinds our wheat. 

Ned: What are the two big stones fort 

Nina : They turn in different ways 
and grind the wheat. 

Don’t you see it between the stones? 

Then it is sifted through fine cloth. 

Hans: Look down there! There is the flour. 

Now you know how flour is made. 

Nan: Let us make a toy windmill 
when we get home, Ned. 

Ned: Won’t our friends like to hear 
about the Dutch windmills? 

Nan: We have had a good time, Nina. 

All: Gloodbye, Nina! G-oodbye, Nina. 


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Going Fishing 

Hilda: We are going fishing to-day. 

Hans and Ned are digging the worms. 
Sometimes we fish with minnows. 
Nan: Hilda and I will put up the lunch. 
Hilda: What shall we put into the basket? 
Nan: Sh! Sh! Don’t tell. It shall be 
a secret. 

The boys must guess. 

We will say to the boys, 

“If you don’t guess right, 
you can’t eat.” 

Hilda: Poor boys! they will be very hungry. 
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Ned: Look at the hills all around here. 

Hans: They are not hills. They are dikes. 

They are walls made of earth. 

The land in Holland is lower 
than the sea. 

The Dutch people made these walls 
to keep out the sea. 

They have men watch the dikes, 
day and night. 

If there is a leak in the dike, 
they ring their bells. 

The people run to help the guards. 

Hilda: They use large mats of straw 
to keep the water out. 

We can walk and drive on the dikes. 

Sometimes the dikes are higher 
than the houses. 

Nan: Here is a long pier, Ned. 

See how far it goes out into the water. 


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Ned: This is a good place to fish. 

We sit with our shoes in the water. 

Water does not spoil wooden shoes. 

Nan: I wish we had wooden shoes, Ned. 

Pull! Pull! Quick, Ned, 
you have a fish! 

Ned: You have a fish, too. 

This is good luck for us. 

Hilda : Mother will cook the fish for supper. 

Hans: I am hungry. Can’t we have 
our lunch now? 

Nan: Yes, but you and Ned must guess 
what is in the lunch basket. 


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Ned: I guess cheese. 

Hans: I say herring. 

Ned: I guess black bread. 

Hilda: Good! Good! What else? 

Do you give up? Must I tell you 

Well, we have eight dolls. 

Ned: Aw! We can’t eat dolls. 

Nan: O yes you can! 

These are gingerbread dolls. 

Hans: There are the dolls for boys. 

What fun we shall have 
eating our lunch. 

After lunch we will sail 

our wooden shoes in the water. 

Nan: Oh! I almost fell into the canal. 

Ned: Nan lost her shoe, but I got it 
with a long stick. 

I came very near falling 
into the water, too. 


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The Storks 

Ned: We like to walk on the dikes. 

We see so many strange things. 
Nan: What kind of birds are those on the 
roofs of the houses? 

What long red legs they have! 
How big they are! 

Hans: They are storks. Did you never see 
a stork before? 

We have many of them here. 


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Ned: 


One of them has only one leg! 
Where is his head? 

Hans: That is the way he sleeps, Ned. 

Could you sleep standing on one foot? 
Hilda: We like to have storks on our farm. 

Folks say they bring us good luck. 
Hans: See that one on the nest. 

They like to nest near the chimney. 
We build little platforms for them. 
Hilda: We want the storks to bring 
good luck to our home. 

Hans: Didn’t you see the stork houses 
on our farm? 

Some of them are on high poles. 
Nan: 0 , yes! They are like our bird houses 
at home, only larger. 

Ned: There are many storks at the farm. 

They are quite tame. 

Hilda: We see that no one harms them. 


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Hans: The stork eats frogs and toads that 
go hopping about the canals. 

Hilda: He eats snakes and lizards, too. 

With his long neck and long bill he 
can fish without getting wet. 

Hans: He likes the things that he gets 
from the mud. 

Ned: I see how the stork helps the farmer, 
and brings good luck. 

Hans: Look at their long legs. You would 
know that they wade in the water. 

The storks cannot find food 
when it becomes cold. 

In winter they go where it is warm, 
and come back in the spring. 

Hilda: How glad we are to see the storks 
in the spring. 


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Going to Market 

Hans: This is market day. 

Father will take us in the canal boat. 
Ned: Let us help to load the boat, Hans. 
Hilda, bring the cabbages. Nan, 
bring the onions. 

Hans, bring the beets and I 
will take the carrots. 

Hans : But Father must carry the tulip bulbs. 
Do you know why? 


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Hilda: He is afraid we will spoil the bulbs. 

He sells them for a great deal 
of money. 

His tulips are more beautiful 
than any others. 

Hans: Some day Father will tell us a story 
about Dutch tulips. 

Nan: Are we ready to go to market now? 

Hilda: No! Hans must bring Father’s horn. 

Nan: Why do we need a horn, Hilda? 

Hilda: Wait and see. 

Toot! Toot! Here we go! 

Ned: How near we go to the houses! 

Hans: Father talks to a man on the street, 
as we go along in the boat. 

The man is selling vegetables 
from his cart. 

Nan: See the beautiful window boxes 
of vines and flowers! 

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Some are on the low roof. 

It looks like a flower garden 
on the roof. 

Hilda: There are flower boxes over some 
of the doors. 

Nan: The flowers make the little Dutch 
houses look very pretty. 

Ned: See the bird in the cage, Nan! 

We can hear it singing. 

Nan: Look at the little boy and the girl! 

They are washing their faces and 
hands in the canal. 

Hilda: The women are washing clothes 
in the canal. 

Nan: How strange that is! 

What a funny washboard, Hilda! 

Hilda: It is a big, flat stone. 

See the women talking and laughing. 

Nan: See how many wooden shoes there are 


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outside that house! 

There are too many to count. 

Hans: That is a school house. 

Wooden shoes are too noisy 
in the school room. 

They go, “Klomp, klomp, klomp,” 
on the floor. 

The children could not hear. 

Then, too, the shoes might dirty 
the floor. 

Ned: Why is the horse walking so 
near the canal? 

See the big rope! 

Hans: The horse is pulling the heavy boat 
by the rope. 

Father uses a pole for his boat. 

He goes close to the bank and can 
push the boat along with the pole. 

The boat does not go very fast. 


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Ned: Look at that tiny bridge. 

See the little house on it! 

Oh! Oh! What will we do? 

We can’t go under the bridge! 

Hilda: Father will blow the horn now. 

A man is in the little house 
on the bridge. 

He will make the bridge go up 
so we can go on. 

Hans: Do you know now why Father 
brought the horn? 

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Sometimes he uses it to call 
to other boats. 

Here are four boats with flowers. 

They are called flower boats. 

See the daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, 
tulips, and lilies. 

It looks like a flower parade. 

In Holland we see flower boats every day. 

The Dutch people take flowers 
to the markets. 

They buy flowers for their churches 
and homes. 

They buy flowers for each other’s birthdays. 

Do you have flowers when you have 
a birthday? 

Hans’ father sells flowers and vegetables. 

Toot! Toot! Hans’ father wishes to talk 
to a man in one of the flower boats. 

He calls him Jacob. 

Jacob wants to know who the children are. 

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He knows they are not Dutch children, 
because they do not look like them. 

Ned told him he lived in America. 

Jacob will give the children a ride in his 
flower-boat some day. 

What fun to ride with all the flowers! 

The flowers are all different colors. 

Toot! Toot! They are landing now. 

Oh, how many people there are here! 

They are in a square with stores 
on all sides. 

It is called a market-place. 

Some women sit under big umbrellas. 

They are knitting and sewing. 

They are waiting for people to buy. 

They come early in the morning and 
stay all day long. 

See them laughing and talking! 

They must be having a good time. 


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The Fruit and Vegetable Market 

Some people put their vegetables in little 
carts and go from house to house. 
Hilda’s father takes his to the market. 
Here come some women with baskets 
of vegetables on their arms. 

They buy fruit and vegetables for dinner. 
Is this all they can buy in the market? 
They will go to a fish market. 

The women with big baskets sell fish. 

See the storks around here! 

There are many storks in the fish market. 
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Butter and Cheese Market 

This market has butter, cheese, and eggs. 
A large cloth is spread on the ground. 
Then the cheeses are piled on the cloth. 
The cheeses look like large red balls. 
The butter must be kept from the sun. 
The eggs are large and clean. 

They are kept in a cool place. 

The market opens at four o’clock 
in the morning. 

How very early the men must get up! 
This market is not open every day. 

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Ned and Plans ran away from the girls. 
They came to another market. 

Plere they found a coop full of chickens. 
There are some ducks, too. 

Here is a place to buy animal cakes. 

Ned will buy a horse and a dog. 

Hans buys a cow and a pig. 

“Oh Hans! I ate the horse’s tail! 

Ha! Ha! Now I will eat his ears,” 
said Ned. 

Hans said, “Let us take some cakes 
to the girls.” 

What a strange sign, “For Sale. Fire 
and Water.” 

How can people buy fire and water? 
Some Dutch people are very poor. 

They cannot have a fire all day. 

So, before dinner, they buy a can of coals. 
Sometimes they buy a can of hot water, too. 


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The Tulips 

In April, there are many tulips in bloom 
in Holland. 

There are many other kinds of flowers. 

We can smell the flowers. 

The sweet odor comes from miles away. 

The gardens of Holland look like 
beautiful carpets of flowers. 

The flowers for the markets come 
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There are big fields of red tulips, and fields 
of yellow and white ones. 

“Ned, did you ever see so many tulips?” 
asked Hans. 

“Dutch people do not care so much 
for the flowers as for the bulbs. 

Do you know why? 

They sell many bulbs to Americans. 

They sell them all over the world. 

Many Dutch people make their living 
in this way.” 

“Will you give us some bulbs, Hans? 

We want to take them to America,” 
said Nan. 

“We shall have a tulip bed, Nan, but not 
so large as Hilda’s. 

The flowers will be just like hers,” 
said Ned. 


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A Flower Carnival 


From April to June the fields hold 
a flower carnival. 

The snowdrops and crocuses come first. 

The hyacinths, narcissuses, and tulips 
are next. 

The anemones and peonies follow. 

The last is the stately iris. 

Do you know how the tulips got their name? 

They are named tulips from tulipa, 
a Turk’s cap. 

Do you think they look like turbans? 

They nod their bright heads to us. 

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The Tulip Story 


Hilda: Now, Father, tell us a "bedtime story. 

Father: What shall I tell you? 

Nan: Tell us the Tulip story. 

Father: Once upon a time, there was a king. 

He did not live in Holland. 

He liked flowers very much. 

He knew that he could buy beautiful 
tulip bulbs in Holland. 

So he sent for hundreds of the bulbs. 

Of course, he paid a great deal 
of money for them. 

The box with the bulbs came 
to the king’s servant. 

He thought these bulbs were 
a new kind of onion. 

In a few days, the king had 
a big party. 

He invited many friends. 


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The cook thought it would be fine to 
have these new onions for dinner. 

He watched with great joy to see 
the people eat the onions. 

What ugly faces they made when 
they bit into the cooked bulbs! 

They were not fit to eat. 

The king was so angry that he 
would not go into his garden. 

The Dutch people now call this tulip 
“The Storm Tulip,” because the 
king was so angry. 


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Dutch Dog Carts 

Look at the dogs! 

They are harnessed like horses. 

The Dutch dogs have to do the work 
of horses. 

The dogs pull the carts to town. 

In the carts are fresh butter, cheese, eggs, 
and milk. 

Dogs pull vegetable carts, too. 

They pull carts for the butcher 
and the baker. 


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Sometimes the dog-carts carry hot coals 
and hot water to the poor people. 

If you are in the city very early in the 
morning, you will see these busy little 
carts. 

They go from house to house. 

Some people in Holland have only one dog. 

If the milk cart is heavy, the man helps 
the dog to pull it. 

Sometimes the woman helps the dog 
to pull it. 

This looks very queer to Americans. 

Many women of Holland work out of doors. 

They work in the fields raising bulbs. 

They help gather the flowers. 

Sometimes they take them to market. 

The children are helpers, too. 

See the dogs coming so fast! 

Whoa! Whoa! Stop! Stop! What is 
the matter? 


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The dogs are running away. 

0 no! they are chasing a cat! 

Now they are fighting. 

The cat jumps on the dog’s back. 

Bow wow! Bow wow! 

Mew! Mew! S-s-t! S-s-t! S-s-t! 

Here comes the man who owns the dogs. 
What do you suppose will happen? 

Ah! He is too late! Over goes 
the milk wagon! 

Splash! Splash! Out goes the milk! 

It is on the sidewalk, on the wagon, 
and on the dogs. 

The dogs are twisted up in the harness. 
The harness and wagon are broken. 

The dogs cannot run. 

Where is the cat? Ha! Ha! She is sitting 
in a tree. 

She is smiling at the dogs. 


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The New Baby 

Hilda: Come, Nan, let’s go for a walk. 

Nan: 0! Hilda! Look at that red cu-shion. 
Why, it is hanging on the door 
of that house. 

Some one must have forgotten 
to take it in. 

Hilda: 0 no! Nan, it tells us that a baby boy 
has come to that house. 

That is the way they tell their 
good news to their friends. 

That is a funny way to do. 

What if a baby girl comes? 

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Nan : 


Hilda: Then they put out a blue or a white 
cushion. 

Once I saw a piece of red string 
on a door. 

Father said the people were very poor. 

They could not buy a red cushion, 
so they used a string. 

Nan: We make cushions in our schools. 

But we never use them in that way. 

I shall tell my friends all about this. 

I will send you a red cushion and 
a blue one. 

Hilda: In a few days, after a new baby comes, 
the mother has a tea party. 

Nan: May we go to the party? 

Did you ever go to such a party? 

Hilda: No. It is not a little girls’ party 
or a little boys’ party. 

It is only for mothers. 

Nan: Will your mother go to this party? 


Hilda: Yes, Mother will go. 

They will use the best dishes and 
Grandmother's silver spoons. 
The spoons are very old and worn. 
They were made from silver coins. 
Nan: What will they have to eat? 

Hilda: For this babjr, they will have 
little cakes with frosting. 

But, of course, they can only make 
believe that the baby can eat cake. 
Nan: What would they have if the baby 
were a girl? 

Hilda: They would have little cakes 
with brown seeds. 

Nan: I think it must be fun to go 

to such a party. 

I wish we could go. 

We do not have parties like that. 

We have many other parties, and 

maybe we have just as much fun. 
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The Kermis 

Here are the children at the Kermis. 

Hans: The Kermis is a holiday time. 

It comes the last week of August 
each year. 

People come from all the country. 

They visit their friends in the city. 

Ned: It is like our fair in America. 

Hilda: Everybody goes to the Kermis 
for a good time. 

The Dutch families take hold of hands 
and walk in rows. 


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Hans: The boys and girls wear their best 


clothes at the Kermis. 

Nan: Look at all the different caps. 

What do they mean? 

Hilda: Oh! I can tell where each little girl 
comes from by the cap she wears. 
Some of the caps are very beautiful. 
They are made of fine lace, and cost 
a great deal of money. 

Hans: Come on, Ned, let’s have a swing. 

Hilda and Nan want to swing, too. 
Ned: Girls always want to do the same 

things that boys do. 

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Hans: 0 Ned, here is a Giddy- go-round. 

Look at all the animals! 

Ned: May we have a ride? 

Let’s count our money. 

Hilda: I want to ride on the camel. 

Nan: I want to ride on the elephant. 

Ned: I want to ride on the horse. 

Hans: I want to ride on the big fish. 

The children went around three times. 

Then the music stopped, and they got off. 
They wished another ride, but there were 
many other things to do at the Kermis. 
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Hans and Ned were in the bag race. 

How funny they looked! 

The one that got to the pole first 
won a nice pair of skates. 

The second best got a fish pole. 

All stood in a line. 

The man called, “One, two, three! Go!” 
Each boy started. Down went four. 
They tried to get up, but could not. 
The other two hopped along. 

Then one fell and rolled over and over. 
Ned was the only boy to get to the pole. 
He proudly carried the prize home. 

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Hans and Ned went into a show. 

They saw some little dogs doing all kinds 
of tricks. 

They saw a place to buy ribbon cake. 

Oh, how long it was! How did they eat it? 
Hans began at one end, and Ned began 
at the other. 

They ate as fast as they could. 

They ate until their noses touched. 

Here are some round, rich cakes, with butter 
and sugar on them. 

There are twenty cakes all in one. 

“I want one of these,” said Ned. 

“Could you eat twenty cakes at one time, 
Hans?” 

“Oh yes, it is easy to eat this kind.” 

Hans did eat twenty cakes and so did Ned. 
Ned had a dream that night. 

Nan thought Ned was ill. 

He groaned and talked all night. 


Ned’s Dream 


This was Ned’s dream. 

Here comes a giant soldier. 

He has a big gun and he is coming for Hans. 

He says Hans ate twenty cakes. 

He must whip boys who eat so many cakes. 

Hans eats the soldier’s gun. Now he is safe. 

Here is a piece of cake so long that 
it will reach from Holland to America. 

Ned and Hans must eat this long cake. 

The giant soldier says that they must eat it 
all in one minute. 

If not he will put them in a dark cave. 

Oh! Oh! They can’t eat it. 

Mother calls, “Ned! Ned! Why are you 
crying? It is time to get up. 

Don’t you want your breakfast?” 

Ned was crying, “Where is the soldier? 
Where is the cake?” 


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Writing a Letter 

The children have been to the Kermis 
for a whole week. 

Ned is tired and is thinking of his home. 
He is writing a letter to one of his friends. 
This friend lives in Chicago. 

Ned used to play with him. 

Ned asks his mother to spell a word for him. 
His mother spells this word, “W-i-l-l-i-a-m.” 
What was the friend’s name? 

Perhaps you would like to read the letter. 


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Ned’s Letter 


Valburg, Holland, Sept. 1, 1915. 
Dear William: 

I wish you were with Nan and me, 
because we are having such a fine time in 
Holland. Last week we went to the 
Kermis. It is like our country fair. Every- 
body goes just to have a good time. 

The canals here are the roads. The people 
go to market in boats. Great banks of earth 
and stone, called dikes, keep the water in 
the canals from flowing over the land. 

How are our friends in America? Do 
you play games with Fred and May? Tell 
them we are coming home soon. 

Write me a long letter, and tell Nan and 
me what you have been doing. 

Your loving friend, 

Ned. 


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Hilda: Come, children, see what is 
on the ground! 

You will be glad winter is here. 

We shall have some fun now. 

Hans: All right. Get your skates. 

Everybody skates in Holland. 

It is easier to skate than to walk. 
Hilda: We can go very fast on our skates. 
Hans’ skates are made of steel. 
Nan’s are made of wood. 


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The very fine ones are silver plated. 

Did you ever read about “Hans 
Brinker and his Silver Skates”? 

He could almost fly on his skates. 

He could go faster than a horse. 

Hans: Some people take off their shoes 
when they skate. 

Then they tie their skates on their feet 
with a string. 

The Dutch people glide over the ice 
very easily. 

Nan: They look like bright birds as they 
skim along. 

Men and women are carrying big 
baskets on their heads. 

Ned: Are they going to market? 

Hans: Yes, they carry butter, cheese, and 
milk to the markets in this way. 

Some of the Dutch people have dogs 

to pull sleds to market. 

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The Ice Boat 

Look out! Here comes an ice boat! 

It has a big sail on it. 

See how fast it goes! 

It is taking butter and cheese to market. 
What an easy way to go to market! 

How funny! Here is a little store on the ice. 
The children go in to buy something. 

If it is cold, they get hot chocolate. 

They can get coffee and milk. 

There are all kinds of cakes, too. 

They get very hungry when they skate. 
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The Ice Chair 

What a queer looking sled is coming! 
Why, it is a chair! 

There is a lady riding in it. 

The chair is on runners that look like 
big skates. 

A man is skating and pushing the chair. 
They go very fast. 

The lady is wrapped in furs. 

Do you know how she keeps her feet warm? 
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Her feet are on a wooden stool. 

It is made like a box with one end open. 
There are holes in the lid. 

Inside the box is a bowl of red hot coals. 
Nan calls this box a foot stove. 

People carry them to church. 

They use them in their homes, too. 

The stone floors are very cold. 

It is cold in Holland. ~ 

The fireplace does not keep people warm. 
The lady uses her box for a hand stove, too. 
When her feet are warm, she will put it 
on her lap, and warm her hands. 

The lady’s name is on her foot stove. 

It is made with bright, brass nails. 

Not all Dutch people have these stoves. 
This is the way Hilda’s name would look 
on her foot stove. -. 


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Fishing through the Ice 

The children are on the big canal now. 
They are watching the men fishing. 

These men make their living in this way. 
They have cut a large hole in the ice. 
They have caught a fish. 

Sometimes the ice cracks and breaks oft 
with a man on it. 

Then the fisherman is carried on the ice, 
far out into the sea. 

Hilda is glad her father is not a fisherman. 
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Just think, Hilda and Hans can go 
everywhere on skates. 

In America they do not have so many places 
to skate. 

They skate on ponds and rivers. 

They can’t skate every day, either. 

When the ice is thick enough on the pond, 
a signal is put up. 

Then the children are very happy because 
they can go skating. 

Hans and Hilda go to school on skates. 

They can go to visit Grandmother 
on skates. 

But Father said he would take them 
to Grandmother’s in an ice sail boat. 

They will have to take their foot stoves 
in the ice boat. 

What fun the children had 
on the canal boats! 

This will be just as much fun. 

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A Load of Peat 

Ned: There comes another black boat. 

I see them every day. 

They don’t carry vegetables, or 
flowers, or milk, or butter. 

Hans: No, they carry peat. 

Ned: It looks like black bricks. 

I never heard of peat. What is it? 
I can see four boats now with the peat. 
The boats are flat and they go 
very slowly. 


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Hans : Peat is dried earth that comes 


from the wet lands. 

Grass grew on the land at one time. 
Before the Dutch people built dikes, 
the water was all over the land. 
The peat is cut in bricks and dried 
in the sun. 

Ned: What do you do with peat? 

Hans: We use it to warm our houses 
and cook our food. 

Ned: Why don’t you use coal or wood? 

That’s what we use in America. 
Hans: Why, there is only one coal mine 
in Holland. 

There are not many forests, but there 
are many peat lands. 

Ned: Can we go to see the peat lands? 

Hans : It wouldn’t be any fun to go there. 

The land is so wet, that we would go 

up to our knees in mud and water. 
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The Feast of St. Nicholas 

Mother is baking cakes for the feast 
of St. Nicholas. 

The feast of St. Nicholas is like our 
Christmas in America. 

St. Nicholas does not wait until our 
Christmas to come to Holland. 

He comes to the Dutch people on December 
the fifth. 

He comes in a sleigh pulled by 
a big white horse. 

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You hear him in the night. 

The bells go jingle, jingle. 

In this sleigh is a wonderful bag, 
that all children love to see. 

There is always a blackman in the sleigh 
with St. Nicholas. 

He holds one corner of the bag, and helps 
to give out the presents. 

Sometimes a big sheet is put on the floor. 

Then St. Nicholas throws some of the 
presents into the sheet. 

He hides some of them all around the house. 

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In Holland, they use their wooden shoes. 

They put them right in front 

of the fireplace. Do you know why? 

Ned: 0 Nan! Do you remember that story 
we read at Christmas time in 
school? 

It was about a little girl named 
Piccola. 

Nan: She put her wooden shoe outside 
of the door for good St. Nicholas. 

I think St. Nicholas is the Dutch 
Santa Claus. 

Ned: I wish he would come to us as early 
as he comes in Holland. 

It is so long to wait for our Christmas. 

Our Christmas is December 
twenty-fifth. 

Hans: We’ll take Ned and Nan to the city 
to see the St. Nicholas toys. 

They will skate on the canal. 

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Nan and Ned are good skaters now. 

They see many men and women, and many 
boys and girls on the ice. 

They are all skating to or from the city. 

Most of them are such fine skaters that 
they can cut figures on the ice. 

Tiny little children can cut the figure 8. 

Sometimes the boys and girls dance 
on their skates. 

The ice boats glide by them and 
the sleigh bells jingle. 

Everybody looks gay and happy. 

The little stores on the canal are busy 
selling hot things to eat and drink. 

It is a busy time. 

All are getting ready for the feast 
of St. Nicholas. 

The fir trees are standing in the markets. 

It makes a market look like a park. 

Hans and Hilda can hardly wait. 

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They will have all kinds of cakes to eat. 

The big stores are ready for the feast 
of St. Nicholas. 

The windows are full of toys, cakes, candies, 
and pretty lights. 

Dutch people do not have Christmas trees 
in their stores. 

Some of the Dutch people have them 
in their homes. 

There are not many trees in Holland. 

They have to send away for them. 

That makes them cost a great deal of money. 

“Do you send to America for them?” 
asked Ned. 

“0 no!” said Hans. “That is too far away. 

It would take a long time to get them, 
and it would cost too much.” 

“It does not seem like Christmas without 
the trees in the stores and a Santa Claus 

standing by the tree,” answered Ned. 

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St. Nicholas 

Hans and. Ned go to a store, where they see 

St. Nicholas in the window. 

He has a big bag in his hand. 

They can have a gift from his bag, but 

they must buy something in the store. 

Ned bought a gingerbread cow. 

Hans bought some cakes with seeds in them. 

“Now put your hand into the bag and see 

what you get,” said Hilda. 

“I have a horn!” said Ned. 

“I have a drum!” said Hans. 

Ned wants to buy something more. 

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Eve of St. Nicholas 

Hilda: On St. Nicholas’ eve we will put our 
largest shoes near the fireplace. 

Do you know why we use the largest 
ones? Ha! ha! 

Hans: We will put carrots and hay in our 
shoes for St. Nicholas’ horse. 

Ned: Suppose you get a present too large 
for your shoe, Hans. 

Hans : The black man hides the large 
presents all over the house. 


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Then everybody hunts for them. 
Nan: Suppose you found a present that 
was not yours. 

Hilda: We give it to the person whose name 
is on it. 

Hilda: It is St. Nicholas’ eve. I hear people 
singing. 

They go from house to house and 
sing St. Nicholas songs. 

0 Nan! Listen! They are coming 

to our house. 

Ned: What are they singing, Hilda? 
Hilda: They are singing “Holy Night.” 

Nan: We sing that at Christmas time, too. 
Isn’t it a pretty song to hear 
on St. Nicholas’ eve? 

1 am so happy, I can’t go to sleep. 

I hope St. Nicholas will come soon. 

Ned: I wish I would dream about all the 

things that I saw in the stores. 
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St. Nicholas Day 

Hilda hears the clock strike three. 

It is too early to get up now. 

She is afraid St. Nicholas has not come yet. 
She goes to sleep again. 

It is still dark and only five o’clock. 

Nan calls, “Merry Christmas! 

Merry Christmas! 

Run to the shoes! Look! Look! 

Ha! Ha! They are full and running over. 
Fruit, candy, animal cakes, and gingerbread 
dolls. 



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Let’s hunt for the other presents.” 

“Look at Hilda! She has found a box 
of soldiers,” said Ned. 

“0! Hans! They are yours.” 

“Yes, but I found this big doll; with HILDA 
on it,” said Hans. 

Hilda: What fun this is! 

Ned found his own present. 

Ned: Oh! Just what I wanted; a pair of 
silver plated skates! 

Hans: Nan is hunting everywhere. 

I wonder if she will get what 
she wants, too. 

Yes! Yes! Look, Hilda! 

Nan has a pair of wooden shoes 
just like your best ones. 

She will have to learn to walk and 
run in them. 

They will drop off at first. 


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Hilda: We must be sure to find everything. 
Now, let’s trade cakes. 

I’ll trade this gingerbread doll for 
the cake you have, Nan. 

Nan: Yes, I like the gingerbread dolls. 
Nan’s cake is like a little tunnel. 

The hole is filled with nut icing. 

The best of all are the gingerbread dolls. 
There is one for each person. 

Even Mother and Father get dolls. 

Isn’t it funny for big people to get 
gingerbread dolls? 

Hans’ mother got a gingerbread man. 

His father got a gingerbread woman, with 
a big ruffle around her neck. 

The children wish St. Nicholas day would 
come more than once a year. 


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A Holland New Year Greeting 

I wish you a happy New Year, 
Long may you live! 

Much may you give! 

Happy may you die! 

And Heaven be yours, by and by. 


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Jack Frost has left for the Northland. 
There is no more skating. 

There is no more jingling of the sleighbells. 
The people are glad to see their good luck 
storks again. 

They have come from the sunny South. 
Hans’ father will soon make his gardens. 
He is getting his tulip bulbs ready now. 
How glad the cows are to get out 
of the stable. 

They had to stay in all winter; 
it was so cold. 


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Now they can go to the green fields. 

They can have the new grass. 

The milk will be rich, and the butter will 
be nice and yellow. 

It seems good to hear the tinkling 
of the cow bells again. 

The shepherd is taking the sheep 
to the fields. 

He takes care of several flocks. 

Each sheep wears a little bell. 

Each flock has a different kind of bell. 

The shepherd knows all the different sounds. 

He stays with his sheep all day long and 
brings them home at night. 

The dogs might kill them. 

The shepherd must be lonesome with no one 
to talk to. 

Guess what he does. 

He knits stockings for boys and girls. 

How strange to see a man knitting stockings! 

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A Game of Marbles 


Ned: I)o you know how to play marbles. 
Hans? 

Boys play marbles in America. 

In the spring they play marbles 
and fly kites. 

They play ball, too. 

Come on, let’s have a game of marbles. 

I’ll teach you how to play, Hans. 

Nan: 0! dear! Ned forgot to bring his 
marbles to Holland. 

Hilda: Hans hasn’t any. What can they do? 

Ned: We can make marbles from mud. 

Let us go down by the canal 
and make mud marbles. 

Hans: We will put them in the sun to dry. 

Soon they will be hard. They will be 
just like real marbles. 

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Flying Kites 

One day Ned made two kites. 

He started to make the kites at nine o’clock 
in the morning. 

He worked till five o’clock in the afternoon. 
Hans said, “They are fine kites, Ned. 
Which one is for me?” 

Then Ned took the box kite and said, 

“You may try the flat kite first.” 

Each kite had a long tail. 

Both kites were good fliers. 

Ned thought it was fine to fly a kite 
in Holland. 


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Easter 

Next Sunday will be Easter. 

The flowers are in bloom. 

The gardens and fields are beautiful 
with their bright colors. 

The people are glad to see the flowers again 
after the cold winter. 

Nan and Hilda are helping to pick the 
flowers. 

Hans and Ned are carrying them to the boat. 

The father will take them to the market. 

In Holland everyone has flowers at Easter. 


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Here come some children. 

What long poles they have! 

Flowers and evergreens are on top 
of the poles. 

The children are singing a Dutch song. 
Now they are standing in front of the house 
and saying, 

“Eggs, eggs, who’ll give us eggs? 

Who’ll give us eggs?” 

“We will give them some eggs, won’t we, 
Nan?” said Hilda. 

“They will take them home and color them 
for Easter. 

Mother will color ours.” 

“Let’s help her, Hilda,” said Nan. 

“See! I have one, two, three, four, five, 

six, seven, eight, nine, ten eggs. 

They are red, blue, yellow, purple, and green. 

We will hide some of them in the rabbit’s 

nest for Hans and Ned to find.” 

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Egg Rolling 

It is Easter afternoon. 

The children are going to roll eggs 
at three o’clock. 

There are no hills on the farm. 

They roll the eggs in the field on the side 
of the dike. 

They are trying to hit each other’s eggs. 

Hans said, “If I hit yours, Ned, it is mine! 

Crack! Crack! There it goes!” 

“Isn’t it fun? I hit yours,” said Ned. 

“You hit mine, Hans. 

That makes it even. 

I get yours, and you get mine. 

I have nine eggs, Hans.” 

“Hilda has twelve eggs. 

Hilda has a dozen, hasn’t she?” said Nan. 

When night came, the children were tired 

and ready to go to bed. 

They had had a fine time. 

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Playing School 

Rain! Rain! Rain! 

The children must stay inside to-day, 
and play in-door games. 

Ned: Let’s play school. We will have 
a school like the one we went to 
in America. I’ll be the teacher. 

Nan: All right! Hans and Hilda may be 

the pupils. Ha! Ha! This is a 

small school, isn’t it, Ned? 

I’ll get my dolls. We can use them 

for pupils. 

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Hilda: 


Here they are! Now there are eight 
children in this school. 

Hans: If the dolls are not good, Ned can 
punish them. 

It will not hurt them. 

First, they had a singing lesson. 

Nan used a little whistle. She pretended 
it was the teacher’s pitch-pipe. 

She kept the time with her right hand, 
just as a real teacher would. 

Ned put on his father’s glasses. 

He looked at the children in his school, 
and said they were very good pupils. 

He could not see through the glasses, 
so he looked over them. 

This made the children laugh. He looked 
so funny. 

Poor dolls! They can’t laugh. 

The children like rainy days, because they 
can play school. 

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Riddles 

Ned: It is something that is black. 

It is shiny. It gives heat. 

People get it out of the ground. 
What is it? Do you give up? 

Hans: I think it is coal. 

Nan: What is it that you can hear and feel, 
but no one has ever seen? 

Hilda: ’M! That is a hard one. I give up. 
Nan: Why, it is the wind. 


108 


Whitsuntide 


After Easter comes Whitsuntide. 

On this Sunday it is great fnn to be 
the first child out of bed. 

That child runs to awaken the others 
and says to them in Dutch, 

“Lazy loon, 

Sleepy head, 

Lie abed, 

Don’t get up till noon.” 

Hans and Hilda were ready for church first. 

In the church, the men and big boys 
sit on one side. 

The women and little children 
sit on the other side. 

This is very strange to Nan and Ned. 

The service is very long. 

Nan and Ned are not used to long services. 

Hans and Hilda had to keep them awake. 


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The Queen 

Nan: We like to live in Holland, Hans. 

We shall be sorry to leave it. 

But sometimes we get homesick. 

We miss our schoolmates, 
and friends, too. 

Ned: Since we came here, Hans, Father says 

we have a new president. 

Do you have a president in Holland? 

Hans: No, we have a queen. 

Ned: Does she rule the Dutch people? 

Yes, she is our ruler. 

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Hans : 



Palace in Amsterdam 

Hilda: Her name is Wilhelmina. 

She is good to her people. 

We all love her. 

Nan: Did you ever see her, Hans'? 
Hans: No, but we hope to see her 

when we go to Amsterdam. 
We shall go there very soon. 
The queen goes once a year 
to Amsterdam. 


ill 


She goes to get the money that 
the people of Holland give her. 

Hilda: She does not live in Amsterdam. 

She lives in a city called The Hague. 

Her father’s name was Wilhelm. 

Ned: Was she named after him, Hilda? 

Hilda: Yes; in one of the streets of 
The Hague is a statue. 

It is a statue of “William the Silent.” 

The Dutch people call him 
“Father William.” 

Hans: The queen’s father died when she 
was ten years old. 

She was too young to be the queen 
then. 

So her mother was queen for her. 

Her mother’s name was Emma. 

Hilda: Wilhelmina was very lonesome when 
she was a little girl. 

Queens are not always happy. 

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She was not allowed to play 
with other children. 

Queen Wilhelmina liked children, 
and wanted to play with them. 

She did not want to be queen. 

One time Wilhelmina said 
to a naughty doll, 

“Now be good, or I will turn you 

into a queen, and then you will 
have no one to play with.” 

Hans: When she was fourteen years old, 

her mother gave her fifty dolls. 

Most children would like that, 
but Wilhelmina did not 
want so many. 

Hilda: It was work for her. 

Each doll was dressed to show 
a different kind of soldier 
in the army. 


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She had to learn all about 
each one of them. 

Nan: I would not like that, either. 

Hilda: When Wilhelmina grew up, she 
became queen. 

She married, but she will always be 
the queen as long as she lives. 

A beautiful baby girl came 
to the palace. 

She is called the princess. 

Her name is Juliana. 

Nan: Hid they hang a blue cushion 
on the door? 

Hid the queen have a party? 

Ned: Bon’t you hope that we can 

see the queen before we go home? 

Hans: Father will take us to The Hague. 

Perhaps we shall see her then. 

Nan: Oh! I do want to see her! 


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Amsterdam 


The children went to visit some cities 
in Holland. 

Amsterdam is a beautiful old city. 

It is built on many little islands. 

Sometimes it is called the “City of Canals.” 

Hilda’s father asked how far it was 
to the station. 

The man said, “Four canals south, sir.” 

Isn’t that a queer way to tell how far 
it is to a place? 

“Hans, what are the little mirrors 
by the windows for?” asked Ned. 

“So the women can see who is passing. 

If some one knocks, they can see who it is, 
before opening the door,” 

-answered Hans. 

The mirrors are called “spies.” 

One can see what is going on outside 

and not be seen. 

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Weeding the Streets 

The Dutch people keep their streets 
neat and clean. 

Some one is always working on them. 

Ten women were digging weeds 
from the street. 

Each had a wooden stool to sit on, 

and a big, strong knife to dig with. 

They moved along in a straight line, 
digging every green thing in sight. 

A guard sat by a tree watching them. 

The women had broken the laws. 

This is the way the city punished them. 


116 



The Cheese Market of Alkmar 

The children are going to the greatest 
cheese market in Holland. 

It is in the town of Alkmar. 

They will go on Thursday, 
so as to see all the sights. 

But market day is on Friday. 


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Hans’ father will take some cheeses to sell. 

Around Alkmar are very rich farms, 
with large numbers of cows. 

They are called Holland’s black and 
white beauties. 

The farmers bring their loads to town 
in dog carts and boats. 

They begin to arrive on Thursday night. 

Early Friday morning the streets and canals 
are full of queer looking carts and boats. 

It is noon before they are unloaded 
and ready for the sale. 

Then men from the cities come and talk 
a long time about the price. 

They shake hands with the farmers 
many times. 

They look very serious. 

Hans says that means that the 
cheeses are sold. 


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After the sale, men dressed in white 
have their work to do. 

These men are called weighers. 

They bring long boat-shaped trays. 

They carry the cheeses to the scales. 

The trays hold over a hundred cheeses. 

This is a very heavy load. 

It takes two men for each tray. 

They carry it by long straps 
over the shoulders. 

The trays just clear the ground. 

After the weighing, the cheeses are 

put on boats and taken to store-houses. 

Here they are placed on racks to ripen. 

Then they get a coat of red and 
start on their journey. 

They go to all parts of the world. 


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The Hague 


The Hague is sometimes called 
“The City of Storks.” 

The children are going to see 
the queen’s palace. 

The palace is called “The House 
in the Woods.” 

Look! There comes the queen’s carriage. 

“Oh, the queen is in the carriage!” said Hans. 

“We take off our hats, and make a bow. 

The queen’s carriage is drawn by 
two beautiful black horses. 

It is just like the one that Cinderella had.” 


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Princess Juliana 

Hans: We are lucky to-day! Here comes the 


Queen’s carriage again. 

Hilda: Look, Nan! The little Princess 

Juliana is sitting by her mother. 
She looks happy. She smiles at the 
children as she passes. 

Ned: We will make a low bow to the Queen 
and to the princess. 

Hilda: The princess has a long name. 

I wonder if you can remember it. 
Princess Juliana Louise Emma 

Maria Wilhelmina. 

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At the Beach 

Hilda: To-day we are going to the beach. 

Nan: Tell me about the brown things 

that look like chairs, Hilda. 

I see people sitting in them. 

Hilda: They are beach chairs. 

The tops keep the hot sun off. 

People can sit out here in the chairs 
and read, sew, or knit. 

They can watch the bathers 
and listen to the sea. 

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Ned: 


What are the covered wagons for? 
They look like houses on wheels. 
Some look like gipsy wagons. 

Hans: They are bath houses. 

Let’s go into this bath house, 

and put on our bathing suits. 
Ned: Hans! The water is cold! 

Splash! Splash! Splash! Splash! 
Hans: Now we are warm. 

Ned: Where are Nan and Hilda? 

Hans: There they are, lying in the sand. 

I can just see their heads. 

Ned : Let’s splash some water in their faces. 
Nan: That is not fair. We can’t run away. 
Hilda: We will pay you back for that when 
we get up. 

Hans: Father says we must go now. 

Ned: I wish we could stay longer. 

We are having a jolly good time. 


123 



The Island of Marken 

The children will go to the 
Island of Marken. 

It is not far from Amsterdam. 

They will go in a sail boat. 

It will take only an hour. 

“Oh, Nan, I can see the Island now,” 
said Ned. 

“How strange it looks. 

There are no trees.” 

“Look at the tiny houses!” said Nan. 


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They are built on posts like the houses 
in Amsterdam. 

The land is very low and wet. 

This island is called the fishermen’s village. 

All the men fish for a living. 

They go to sea in their fishing boats. 

They are gone all the week. 

Many people visit the island on Sunday. 

The men are at home and each is dressed 
in his quaint Sunday clothes. 

See the rows of fishing boats 
around the shore. 

Many Americans visit the Island of Markenv 
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They like it, because the people are quaint. 

Many of the people have never been 
away from the island. 

Their dress has not changed. 

The people of to-day dress just as they 
did long ago. 

The dress of both men and women is 
gay with color. 

The little girls dress just like their mothers. 

The little boys dress just like their fathers. 

The women wear from six to fourteen skirts. 

Can you see why they look so large? 

No other Dutch girls wear their hair 
like these. 

It is cut straight across the forehead. 

It makes a long heavy bang. 

The rest of the hair hangs in two curls 
from under the cap. 

The men and boys wear short, 
baggy trousers. 


126 



Getting Ready to Leave Holland 

Nan: It is June, and we sail for America 
next week. 

Mother is packing our trunks, 

and we are helping her. 

Ned: Be sure to put in my skates. 

Nan: Don’t forget my wooden shoes 

and my Dutch doll. 

Mother has a Dutch dress and a cap 

with brass buttons for me. 

She will take the funny Dutch 

trousers for you, Ned. 

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Ned: When we get home we shall dress up 
in our Dutch clothes. 

How our friends will laugh at us! 

Nan: Now we are taking our last trip 
on the canal. 

We like these little boats. 

We have had so much fun on them. 

Soon we will be on the 
big steam ship. 

Sailing for America 

Goodby! Goodby! 

Ned: We wish you were going with us, 
Hans and Hilda. 

Good by! Good by! We have had 
a good time in Holland. 

We shall want to come back 


to see you all. 


Nan: 

Ned: 


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Good by! Good by to all! 
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